Photosynthesis & Cell Respiration Flashcards
What is the main energy molecule?
atp
What is the full name of ATP?
adenosine triphosphate
what are the parts an ATP?
- adenosine
- ribose
- 3 phosphates
What is created when you disconnect the 3rd phosphate from an ATP
adp
Besides creating ADP, what is the purpose of disconnecting a phosphate from an ATP molecule?
the reaction creates the energy necessary to power almost all energy-requiring activities
Describe ATP and Glucose’s storage patterns.
- bad for long term storage
- often stored in glucose
- glucose holds 90x the energy of atp
What are the ingeredients for gluscose?
sunlight, water, carbon-dioxide
What is chlorophyll?
a special pigment that has many electrons - easily excited by sunlight
Where do light-independent reactions happen?
stroma
Where do light-dependent reactions happen?
granum/thylakoids
What is a thylakoid?
green membrane containing chlorophyll
What is a granum?
a stack of thylakoids
What is stroma?
the fluid granums float in
What does NAPDH do?
carries excited electrons from dep to indep reaction areas (thylakoids to stroma)
What does into and comes out of the granum?
water in
oxygen out
What goes into and comes out of the light-independent area?
carbon-dioxide in
glucose out
What goes into and comes out of the light-dependent area?
water in
oxygen out
ADP(+P) and NADPH+ travel from ________ to ________.
stroma to granum